Competency Based Assessment - Accelerated assessment / Fast tracking

The event will be based around a panel presentation followed by questions from the floor
Panel members to include:

Policy and Management practice context - Paul Kennett EO Metals and Engineering Skills Advisory Board
• What are the current drivers focusing on competency based apprenticeships?
Government drivers
Industry drivers
• What is seen as the ideal scenario?
• What are the dissenting views?
• What approach works for what scenario?

What does it mean to Industry?- Peter Canavan, Australian Industry Group

• What is happening around the state / inter state? What practices are viewed as good practice?
• What are the challenges for VET providers to accommodate then lead in good practice?
• What separates the contemporary practices from conservative practices?

What does it mean to the VET professional? Geoff Foster, OTTE

• case studies / examples of fast track training and where it has worked
• case studies of where it has struggled?
• What has it meant to the VET practitioner to be involved in the evolution of fast tracking apprenticeships? What are the pitfalls of which practitioners need to be aware?
• What support is available for training?

Conclusion
Capacity for attendees to question panel and present personal experiences
Identify demand for further training